Lima, Peru - Day 1

After a long night of traveling, we arrived in Lima mid morning and breezed through immigration and picking up our luggage to meet our escort Julio. Julio went through our itinerary for the coming days, as well as pointed out things along the 45 minute drive to our hotel.

We’re staying at a boutique hotel in Lima’s lively Miraflores neighbourhood, known for its restaurants and shopping. Unfortunately, our room wasn’t quite ready, so we stored our luggage and went out exploring with instructions from the front desk on where to find lunch. The temperature was a comfortable 25 Celsius, but the humidity was 75% so it was a bit sticky.

We ventured down to the waterfront area where there are shops and restaurants and had lunch at an ocean view terrace restaurant.

By early afternoon, we headed back to our hotel to have a rest given the red eye flights we had taken.

Peru is known as a culinary centre and is home to some of the world’s best restaurants. It’s known for Japanese-Peruvian fusion dishes called Nikkei. We decided to try to get a “walk in” table at Tomo Cocina Nikkei, a short 20 minute walk from our hotel. It’s owned by two former chefs from Maido, one
of the most famous restaurants in the world.

The restaurant opened at seven so we made a point of getting there about 10 minutes before the doors opened. There were other people who had the same idea to get a walk-in table. We struck up a conversation with a man from LA. Turned out he had a reservation for three and his dining companions had bailed so he welcomed us to join him. Win-win! We had lively conversation and delicious food.

We took a leisurely walk back to the hotel through Parque Kennedy, also known as the cat park.

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